When it comes to sex-education for children, Rep. Louie Gohmert would rather leave it up to mom and dad to explain the birds and the bees.

In an interview with WallBuilders Live, a conservative radio program, Gohmert expressed his views on teaching kids about sex and how parents should be involved in the education.

“There is a natural law that the parents should be involved in the education, and they should know about, they should be part of the training. That’s a law of nature,” said Gohmert.

The Tyler Republican said that mankind has existed a pretty long time without having to give sex-education lessons to anybody and that we shouldn’t force sexuality into the lives of children because they will find out soon enough.

Gohmert goes on to say that this situation reminds him of when he was an exchange student in the Soviet Union back in the 70s. He said he was shocked when he was told that children don’t belong to their parents, but they belong to the state. If a parent said something negative about the Soviet Union, they would take the children away and give them to somebody more deserving.
When Gohmert said he is starting to see this happening in the United States because a liberal program host on MSNBC stated that children belong to the state. The comment that Gohmert is referring to is when MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry said:

“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children: Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it’s everybody’s responsibility, and not just the household’s, then we start making better investments.”

Gohmert said the reporter’s comment gave him chills because it reminded him of the Soviet Union in the ’70s.